Re: [PATCH v3 10/21] backports: avoid git tree reinitialization

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 00:15 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> When using backports against for packaging with --gitdebug you either
> have to use --clean or assume the directory is empty already. In either
> case you start fresh. With integration this will be a bit different, you
> could end up with a project directory where the git tree was present but
> only the target directory was empty.
> 
> Calling git init on an already existing git directory will reinitialize
> your git tree, that can reset some config stuff, let's avoid that.

I guess I don't care much, but it seems strange to me that you'd use
--gitdebug in this case, you'd end up committing crappy patches to the
top-level kernel tree?

johannes

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